The Rurik and Romanov dynasties of Russia have shaped modern-day Russia’s land and people. From the first dynasty, which began around the 780s, to 1917, when the Romanov dynasty fell to the Bolshevik ...

Since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war in 2014, one Russian ... In 1547, Ivan IV (“the Terrible”) pulled off one of history’s greatest cons. Crowning himself “Tsar of All Rus ...

No one then thought that the peaceful and flourishing Russia that celebrated ... and the dreams of the Third Rome of the first tsar, Ivan the Terrible. In the words of the hero of a novel by ...

he viewed that part of the walls of the Kremlin from which Tsar Ivan IV watched his enemies executed, was reported as saying: “Ivan the Terrible was right. You cannot rule Russia without a ...

Ivan IV's fearsome reputation is well-documented. Now, Brazilian graphics maestro Cicero Moraes has employed state-of-the-art methods to craft a scientific portrayal of the Russian Tsar's visage.

In her last months and weeks, with many of her students out of Russia ... “Tsar Fedor Ioannovich”, a 19th-century play by Alexei Tolstoy about a humble and saintly tsar who succeeded Ivan ...

Scientists have reconstructed the "cold" face of Russia's cruellest leader centuries after his death. Ivan the Terrible was Russia's first Tsar and turned ... who reigned as Ivan IV, was just ...

The Russian Tsar died in 1584 ... According to the New York Post, the terror-loving tsar also killed his son and only viable heir Ivan IV in a fit of fury. Now, Cicero Moraes, a Brazilian graphics ...

Ivan the Terrible, Russia's first tsar, transformed his country into an ... Ivan the Terrible, who reigned as Ivan IV, was just three when he rose to power after the death of his father.